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[Webby the Bear]

...buy your suspension components?

Even on trade the parts are astronomical

[terry paget]

On e-bay you can get 2 wishbones, 2 track rods and 2 drop links from ATEC for about £80, all decent quality and good for 3 years or more.

[Doctor Gollum]

On e-bay you can get 2 wishbones, 2 track rods and 2 drop links from ATEC for about £80, all decent quality and good for 3 years or more.

£69 for the set currently winging their way to me

As for the rest, establish what you want and shop around

Completely renewing Omega suspension is still around £900 in parts alone

[Webby the Bear]

Far canal!!!

Will get the atp set when needed. However after front and rear shocks and front and rear springs

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Try here.
http://www.europerformance.co.uk/pages/products/product_info.mhtml?product=262866;car=vauxhallomega

[Nick W]

Far canal!!!

Will get the atp set when needed. However after front and rear shocks and front and rear springs

I bought all 4 springs for my estate from ATP. Even with the delivery charge and a heater matrix I paid less for the whole lot than one rear spring would have cost in the UK.


Sachs front shocks from Allgerman are about £65 each, and are OE spec. New top mounts and bearings add about £30 per side; I wouldn't do a front suspension job without them. ATP do all of this too, but the prices aren't quite so impressive.


Do everything in one go, it's SO much quicker and easier: about 90minutes per side.


I wouldn't worry too much about the rear shocks, anything will be an improvement over knackered originals.

[VXL V6]

Balance motorsport for springs (if you wanted Eibach) and either Balance or Demon Tweaks for Bilstein B4 shocks. Meyle HD droplinks and Lemforder wishbones from All German Parts,  polly bushes front from ebay, polly donuts rear from Peddars along with top mounts.

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks for the input ladies.

I have plenty of time to do these things but it's the dough that I need to pay for them all 

Buying on the garage account I can get the whole lot (front and rear springs, front struts, rear shocks and rear track rods - mine are seized and the torch wouldn't even budge them) for approx. £400. Which, on trade, is a shit load. They seem to be just expensive items. However a mixture of bilstein, Sachs and lemforder.

Then the fun of setting it all up on the 4 wheel aligner, which actually, I don't mind doing. Though front camber I've fond needs two people... one to hold the bar and one to tighten everything up.

[aaronjb]

Though front camber I've fond needs two people... one to hold the bar and one to tighten everything up.

There's a joke in here about number of hands, but I can't bring myself to make it

* aaronjb runs and hides

Hope work is still treating you well by the way! I tried again (unsuccessfully, it seems) to send some work your way the other day - friend of my other half ended up paying a crap load for a "new gearbox and headgasket" on her shitbox, and my spidey sense says she got done over on account of her knowing nothing about cars. Sadly, she'd already said OK and had the work done to get it through the MOT.. (see why my spidey sense was tingling?)

[Webby the Bear]

Ah well thanks for thinking of me bro.

You must pop down at some point mate even just to say hello. I'm the fat one... missing an appendage 😂😂😂

[STEMO]

Ah well thanks for thinking of me bro.

You must pop down at some point mate even just to say hello. I'm the fat one... missing an appendage 😂😂😂

You haven’t let that stop you. Good on yer, Steve. 

[aaronjb]

Ah well thanks for thinking of me bro.

You must pop down at some point mate even just to say hello. I'm the fat one... missing an appendage 😂😂😂

I will do - might have to remind me where the garage is, mind IIRC up Moulton Park? I should be up there soon (hopefully!) picking up some laser cut parts from Henderson Fab, so I'll swing by